 ... strictly speaking) there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land...  Annual Register - Page 261edited by - 1768Full view - About this book
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...the decision of the laws in our favour, without examining the reason or authority upon which those laws have been built. We think it enough that our...derived by the grant of the former proprietor, by descent from our ancestors, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner ; not caring to reflect... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...the decision of the laws in our favour, witFiout examining the reason or authority upon which those laws have been built. We think it enough that our...derived by the grant of the former proprietor, by descent from our ancestors, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner ; not caring to reflect... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...at beft we reft fatisfied with the decifion of the laws in our favour, without examining the reafon or authority upon which thofe laws have been built....grant of the former proprietor, by defcent from our anceftor.f, or by the la!l will and tcfts.ment of the dying owner ; not caring to reflect that (accurately... | |
 | George Poulett Scrope - Economics - 1833 - 496 pages
...with the decision of the laws in our favour, without examining the reason or authority on which those laws have been built. We think it enough that our...derived by the grant of the former proprietor, by descent from our ancestors, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner ; not caring to reflect... | |
 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...the decision of the laws in our favour, without examining the reason or authority upon which those laws have been built. We think it enough that our...derived by the grant of the former proprietor, by descent from our ancestors, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner ; not caring to reflect... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 852 pages
...than it is, that our estates were actually acquired, at first, in some of the ways which tho»e those laws have been built. We think it enough that our...derived by the grant of the former proprietor, by descent from our ancestors, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner; not caring to reflect... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...the decision of the laws in our favour, without examining the reason or authority upon which those laws have been built. We think it enough that our...derived by the grant of the former proprietor, by descent from our ancestors, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner ; not caring to reflect... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...the decision of the laws in our favour, without examining the reason or authority upon which those laws have been built. We think it enough that our...derived by the grant of the former proprietor, by descent from our ancestors, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner ; not caring to reflect... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 454 pages
...taken as good authority by gentlemen here. Blackstone says, in the second page of the second volume : " We think it enough that our title is derived by the grant of the former proprietor, by descent from our ancestois, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner; not caring to reflect... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...the decision of the laws in our favour, without examining the reason or authority upon which those laws have been built. We think it enough that our...derived by the grant of the former proprietor, by doscent from our ancestors, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner; not caring to reflect... | |
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